Breakfast with Ryan Huang, Emaad Akhtar and Audrey Siek

Pan Jingyi, Economics Associate Director, IHS Markit shares her expectations of China's inflation figures that will be out later this week and how it feeds into the US. 

In today's The Breakfast Brief, Apple CEO Tim Cook kicked off WWDC with a prerecorded presentation with executives announcing the latest versions of Apple’s software for iPhone, iPads, Mac and Watch.

Schaeffler is a German manufacturer of rolling element bearings for automotive, aerospace and industrial uses. It facilitates automation through robotic solutions and has large footprints in the region. Singapore's large talent pool and regulatory environments promotes innovation in areas such as this. The company also puts importance on maintaining stability by reducing their energy consumption and focusing on becoming carbon-neutral. Dharmesh Arora, Regional CEO Asia/Pacific, Schaeffler Asia Pacific tells us more about his company and the state of automation in the region.

For businesses, understanding and knowing how to make use of the metaverse would help in analysing consumer behaviour. It can help capture more specific data points to further personalize the consumer market to adhere to different and more precise demographics. We speak to Saurabh Madan, Vice President and General Manager, SEA, ANZ and Japan, MoEngage more about this.

Today, we discuss US president Joe Biden's urge for a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, the reason for Trump White House officials Mark Meadows and Dan Scavino's charges of criminal contempt of Congress not being pursued. The team also discussed China's firm opposition to trade talks between the US and Taiwan, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi's meeting with leaders from all ten Pacific Island countries that have diplomatic relations with China, and international reaction to North Korea firing missiles toward the sea off its east coast yesterday. We speak to Nirmal Ghosh, US Bureau Chief, The Straits Times regarding these headlines. Follow The Straits Times' Asian Insider Podcast channel - co-produced with Money FM 89.3 - like us and rate us: Channel: https://str.sg/JWa7 Apple Podcasts: https://str.sg/JWa8 Google Podcasts: https://str.sg/Ju4h Spotify: https://str.sg/JWaX Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg Asian Insider newsletter. Asian Insider videos: https://str.sg/JoVb SPH Awedio app: https://www.awedio.sg/

Kum Soekching, Head of Southeast Asia Research, Credit Suisse Private Banking shares why Retail REITs and Industrial REITs are his top picks and how rising interest rates affect REITs.

In today's The Breakfast Brief, we discuss investor sentiments after the late May rally and preceding the upcoming CPI report. US continues to explore the idea of lifting some tariffs on China to combat the current high inflation, and Elon Musk says total headcount will increase over the next 12 months, backtracking from an email from 2 days ago saying that job cuts of 10% were needed.

In an industry that was mainly dominated by freelancers, swimming instructors, many a time they were not professionally reviewed. Ray Kua, CEO and Co-Founder, SwimRay tells us how he and his partner, introduced a "school to you approach", overcoming issues such as a lack of income to build a successful business that has an even brighter future ahead.

Shane Oliver, Head of Investment Strategy & Chief Economist, AMP Capital gives us his predictions on the outcome of the upcoming OPEC+ meeting and his outlook for oil prices in weeks to come.